Here we go again-Ukraine once again

[Jimbuna]

"Baykar" will give UAV Bayraktar TB2, for which funds were raised in Poland, to AFU for free

The Turkish company Baykar will hand over to Ukraine a UAV for which Polish citizens raised funds for free.

This was announced on Facebook by the initiator of fundraising in Poland, journalist Slawomir Sierakowski, Censor.NET reports.

He published a letter from the board of directors of Baykar.

"We want to be part of this human gesture of solidarity... We will hand over the Bayraktar TB2 to the Ukrainians so that they can defend their Motherland in the best possible way," the company said.

At the same time, Serakovsky added, 22.5 million zlotys collected in Poland will be used for humanitarian aid to Ukraine in agreement with the Ukrainian and Turkish parties.

It is noted that it was possible to collect even more than planned. That is, with a surplus of PLN 1,800,000 (plus proceeds from the auction). These funds will be transferred to the AFU fund account at the National Bank of Ukraine.

By the end of the week, when the collection is closed, this amount may increase even more.

"To sum up: in general, our financial assistance to Ukraine amounts to about 50 million zlotys ($10.6 million)," the initiator of the fundraising concluded.

[Jimbuna]

Both parties of US Congress support transfer of ATACMS long-range missiles to Ukraine, - member of Committee of House of Representatives Slotkin

Elissa Slotkin, a member of the US House Armed Services Committee, said that both parties in Congress support the transfer of long-range missiles to Ukraine. In particular, we are talking about the ATACMS operational-tactical missile system.

This type of weapon can hit targets at a distance of up to 300 km. Slotkin stated this during a briefing, Censor.NET informs with reference to CNN.

According to members of the US House Armed Services Committee, both Republicans and Democrats in the United States Congress are in favor of providing the Armed Forces of Ukraine with ATACMS missiles.

Slotkin explained that Ukraine needs such weapons, as highly mobile HIMARS artillery missile systems can hit targets at a distance of about 80 km. At the same time, ATACMS allows you to destroy enemy targets at a much greater distance.

[mapuc]

We are being lured The market take advantage of the war

From a Swedish article

Study:
High food prices unmotivated the price increases on food are greater than what is actually motivated by the war in Ukraine, according to a new study from Sweden's Agricultural University.
The study has investigated how the loss of production affected food prices globally. For example, the price of wheat rose by 30 percent in Sweden when the war broke out, despite the fact that Ukraine only accounts for a few percent of world production.

- You should have expected a price increase of maybe ten percent, not more, says Torbjörn Jansson, docent in national economics and one of the researchers behind the study.

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[Jimbuna]

Situation is changing significantly in favor of Ukraine. I believe that the AFU will be able to push Russian troops back to the February 23 line by the end of the year, - U.S. General Hodges

The battlefield situation with Russian troops launching a large-scale invasion of Ukraine is already changing significantly in Ukraine's favor.

This was stated by Ben Hodges, ex-Commander of U.S. Forces in Europe, in an interview with РBK-Ukraine, informs Censor.NЕТ.

"I believe that if the West/U.S. continues to deliver everything promised at a faster pace, then Ukrainian forces will be able to push Russian troops back to the February 23 line by the end of this year. The situation is already changing significantly in Ukraine's favor. I expect that active fighting will continue into the winter .Ukraine will probably want to keep up the pressure on Russian forces, which I believe are depleted... And the Russian logistics system is particularly debilitated," he said.

According to Hodges, the "cold phase" of the war benefits only Russia.

"I assume by 'cold phase' you mean a fall with less fighting? I don't think Ukraine will or should allow that to happen... It only benefits Russia," the ex-commander of U.S. forces added.

He noted that AFU could repel the southern part of the country and limit the theater of Russian military action in eastern part of Ukraine.

"I'm sure they can do it, provided that we, the West, continue to deliver everything we have promised. The key is more far-range weapons, as well as help with improving logistical networks inside Ukraine... Perhaps bringing in a commercial logistics company from the U.S. or the U.K.?" - he said.

[Dargo]

Originally Posted by mapuc

We are being lured The market take advantage of the war

From a Swedish article



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High prices for oil and gas led Shell to record profits in the second quarter. At the bottom line, profits reached $18 billion in the past three months, also thanks to the reversal of earlier write-downs. The company is going to buy back $6 billion worth of its own shares in the coming months. This is in addition to the 8.5 billion dollars in treasury shares that the company bought in the first half of this year. Buying back its own shares gives the stock price a boost. Shell is reversing earlier asset write-downs because it assumes that prices will remain high for an extended period. This results in a windfall of $4.3 billion for this quarter.

[Jimbuna]

[Dargo]

The Russian ruler’s entire invasion strategy was based on the flawed assumption that any opposition could be overcome by decapitating Ukraine’s government and replacing it with a Kremlin-friendly alternative. In essence, Putin fell into the trap of believing his own propaganda. He expected Ukrainians to demonstrate the same kind of passivity he has come to expect from Russians. Instead, he now finds himself an international pariah at war with a nation of forty million.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blog...mated-ukraine/

[Skybird]

FOCUS:
In the course of its war in Ukraine, Russia is showing interest in the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 combat drone, which has also been successfully deployed there by Kiev. The issue of military-technical cooperation will also be discussed at Russian President Vladimir Putin's meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi on the Black Sea on Aug. 5, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.

Earlier, Russia had dismissed speculation that it wanted to buy drones from Iran. Putin and Erdogan had met last week in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Now Peskov said the fact that the two sides also talked about such sensitive issues showed how close the two countries' cooperation was.

Russia had previously sold its S-400 missile defense system to Turkey, which is a NATO member, to the annoyance of the United States. Now, according to reports, there will be a quid pro quo from the Turkish side.

Earlier, Erdogan had reported Putin's interest. Putin had proposed to work together with Turkey on the drones of the company Baykar, Erdogan had said on Tuesday, according to the broadcaster CNN Türk. A corresponding factory could be established in the United Arab Emirates, he said. The Emirates had offered this, Erdogan said.

Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 combat drone is considered an export hit. The drones have been used in several conflicts, for example on the side of Azerbaijan in the conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. It is also considered precise and effective and can stay in the air for up to 27 hours.

Ukraine also uses Bayraktar drones. At the beginning of Putin's war of aggression, videos of Russian tanks presumably destroyed by these drones circulated on the Internet. Should Russia develop the drones together with Turkey, Moscow would thus also gain access to the technology of a NATO member state.
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If Turkey proceeds with delivering Russia weaponry like this, this must mean that NATO finally kicks this treacherous nation out. We must demand and expect an immediate, final and unconditional refusal by Erdoghan. If he does not accept, Turkey must be thrown out.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

FOCUS:
In the course of its war in Ukraine, Russia is showing interest in the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 combat drone, which has also been successfully deployed there by Kiev. The issue of military-technical cooperation will also be discussed at Russian President Vladimir Putin's meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi on the Black Sea on Aug. 5, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.

Earlier, Russia had dismissed speculation that it wanted to buy drones from Iran. Putin and Erdogan had met last week in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Now Peskov said the fact that the two sides also talked about such sensitive issues showed how close the two countries' cooperation was.

Russia had previously sold its S-400 missile defense system to Turkey, which is a NATO member, to the annoyance of the United States. Now, according to reports, there will be a quid pro quo from the Turkish side.

Earlier, Erdogan had reported Putin's interest. Putin had proposed to work together with Turkey on the drones of the company Baykar, Erdogan had said on Tuesday, according to the broadcaster CNN Türk. A corresponding factory could be established in the United Arab Emirates, he said. The Emirates had offered this, Erdogan said.

Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 combat drone is considered an export hit. The drones have been used in several conflicts, for example on the side of Azerbaijan in the conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. It is also considered precise and effective and can stay in the air for up to 27 hours.

Ukraine also uses Bayraktar drones. At the beginning of Putin's war of aggression, videos of Russian tanks presumably destroyed by these drones circulated on the Internet. Should Russia develop the drones together with Turkey, Moscow would thus also gain access to the technology of a NATO member state.
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If Turkey proceeds with delivering Russia weaponry like this, this must mean that NATO finally kicks this treacherous nation out. We must demand and expect an immediate, final and unconditional refusal by Erdoghan. If he does not accept, Turkey must be thrown out.

Sky, see https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...postcount=5230

[Dargo]

Originally Posted by Skybird

FOCUS:
In the course of its war in Ukraine, Russia is showing interest in the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 combat drone, which has also been successfully deployed there by Kiev. The issue of military-technical cooperation will also be discussed at Russian President Vladimir Putin's meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi on the Black Sea on Aug. 5, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.

Earlier, Russia had dismissed speculation that it wanted to buy drones from Iran. Putin and Erdogan had met last week in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Now Peskov said the fact that the two sides also talked about such sensitive issues showed how close the two countries' cooperation was.

Russia had previously sold its S-400 missile defense system to Turkey, which is a NATO member, to the annoyance of the United States. Now, according to reports, there will be a quid pro quo from the Turkish side.

Earlier, Erdogan had reported Putin's interest. Putin had proposed to work together with Turkey on the drones of the company Baykar, Erdogan had said on Tuesday, according to the broadcaster CNN Türk. A corresponding factory could be established in the United Arab Emirates, he said. The Emirates had offered this, Erdogan said.

Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 combat drone is considered an export hit. The drones have been used in several conflicts, for example on the side of Azerbaijan in the conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. It is also considered precise and effective and can stay in the air for up to 27 hours.

Ukraine also uses Bayraktar drones. At the beginning of Putin's war of aggression, videos of Russian tanks presumably destroyed by these drones circulated on the Internet. Should Russia develop the drones together with Turkey, Moscow would thus also gain access to the technology of a NATO member state.
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If Turkey proceeds with delivering Russia weaponry like this, this must mean that NATO finally kicks this treacherous nation out. We must demand and expect an immediate, final and unconditional refusal by Erdoghan. If he does not accept, Turkey must be thrown out.

The factory will not deliver any to Russia also will not allow production in Russia. In the meantime, Ukraine got another for free

A new Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aircraft system, with three drones and a ground control station, has been handed over to the Ukrainian military from the team of the “Come Back Alive” Foundation.

The handover took place in Ukraine earlier this month and was conducted in a ceremony attended by lawyer and First Deputy Executive Director of the Ukrainian Veterans Fund Ruslana Velychko and director of Come Back Alive Taras Chmut.

“The “Come Back Alive” Foundation implemented its largest project. With your help, we purchased the Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial system at a total cost of $16,502,450,” the news release says.

https://defence-blog.com/bayraktar-d...nian-military/

[Jimbuna]

About 1,600 bodies have been found in de-occupied territories. The National Police appeals to relatives of the missing to give DNA samples

National police appealed to relatives of the missing to give DNA samples in order to speed up the process of identifying those who died in the war.

As informs Censor.NЕТ, it was reported by Head of Ukraine National Police Ihor Klymenko.

"A total of about 1,600 bodies of Ukrainians have been found. Some of them have not yet been identified. That is why I ask direct relatives of the missing or dead to come to the police and take a DNA test, so that we can speed up this work," he said.

Klymenko emphasized that forensic specialists of the National Police showed their effectiveness during their work at the sites of enemy rocket attacks in Kremenchuk and Vinnitsa, where many people were killed and injured.

In particular, thanks to the equipment received from foreign partners, which includes two mobile DNA-laboratories, specialists conduct such tests on site and establish the identity of the dead. Head of the agency also said that the U.S. side will soon hand over another 26 such DNA-laboratories to Ukrainian National Police.

[mapuc]

Can anyone of you say how Putin interpreter these steps taken by Türkiye. Friend to both Russia and Ukraine. Giving advanced stuff to Ukraine and not to Russia ?

Furthermore can you predict what kind of response Putin will come up with if Ukraine get these 300 km Range rockets/missiles ?

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[Jimbuna]

To answer that Markus would be pure speculation and guesswork at best.

[mapuc]

You're right Jim would be a lot speculation.

Have read this a few second ago in a Danish news paper.

Putin's brilliant oil trick
The EU and the US want to buy oil from Saudi Arabia, but not from Russia. But Saudi Arabia would very much like to buy Russian oil
- We are brilliant.
This is how Vincenzo S. writes in a comment on the media Euractiv.com's Facebook profile about the effect of the sanctions that the West has introduced against Russia - especially the sanctions that deal with Russian oil.

EU president cheered
Two months ago, EU leaders agreed to 'immediately' ban ship-transported oil from Russia. EU President Charles Michel thus cheered on Twitter:

- This (ban, ed.) applies with immediate effect to over two-thirds of oil imports from Russia and thus removes a huge source of financing for the country's war machine, wrote Michel.

Asked Saudi Arabia for help
Russia is the world's second largest oil producer, second only to the US (with Saudi Arabia in a close third), and the EU and US plan was then to ask the Arabs to increase production.

Joe Biden will discuss oil at Arab summit

And immediately it seems that Saudi Arabia can supply more oil to the EU - the other day the Reuters news agency was able to say that Saudi Arabia has doubled its purchases of oil from Russia.

And that the oil port in the emirate of Fujairah seems to receive almost one million tons of Russian oil in the month of July alone.

Oil laundering
Reuters has shown through Refinitiv Eikon ship tracking that Saudi Arabia imported 647,000 tonnes (48,000 barrels per day) of fuel oil from Russia via Russian and Estonian ports in April-June this year, writes Euractiv. This is an increase from 320,000 tonnes in the same period a year ago.

- It's just oil laundering, writes Aries S. in another comment.

- Yes, buy cheap and sell at a higher price.

- They are not our friends. We must drill for our own oil, writes Richard H. and Edwin C. has written this descriptive sentence:

- It seems that some are playing chess, while others are shaking hands with imaginary friends, writes Edwin.

It made me laugh when I read it.

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[Dargo]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Can anyone of you say how Putin interpreter these steps taken by Türkiye. Friend to both Russia and Ukraine. Giving advanced stuff to Ukraine and not to Russia ?

Furthermore can you predict what kind of response Putin will come up with if Ukraine get these 300 km Range rockets/missiles ?

Markus

Turkey can do a lot and has in the past Putin has always sorted it out with Erdoğan, Turkey holds the keys to the Black Sea Putin does not want to lose that.